saparris wrote:I think Converse calls it an accent stripe, being that the company has a basketball background rather than a nautical one.

And you call yourself a grammar whizz. You should no better, Sap, than to use nonstandard phrases like 'being that.' I'll let you off this time, only if you turn a blind eye to all my mistakes--mistakes I prefer to call lapses LOL.

New forum. Same 88.

I'm actually changing. I have a strong desire not to look like a skinny pole with a large bump at its midsection--like most of the Kiwis who partake in the binge-drinking culture we have here.

What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle

And you call yourself a grammar whizz. You should no better, Sap, than to use nonstandard phrases like 'being that.' I'll let you off this time, only if you turn a blind eye to all my mistakes--mistakes I prefer to call lapses LOL.

Of all people, you should recognize the difference between "being that" as a non-standard colloquialism and a grammatically correct occurrence of the same phrase.

Consider the following:

"Being"...is often employed in an absolute construction attached to a complete sentence. As such, it is acceptable. For instance, we might write: "The legislators went ahead and passed the measure, the expectation BEING that they knew the governor would veto the bill in any case."

My sentence was a reduced form of "I think Converse calls it an accent stripe. [The reason] being [is] that the company has a basketball background rather than a nautical one.

But being as how you're working on not being a stick with a bump in the middle, I'll overlook your criticism.